senior people, with badges guns, and alcohol on their breath, told them, i just came from headquarters. they didn't mention they had come from the bar did they? >> no. >> was that a lie? >> it would appear to be that way, yes. >> so it is a lie. >> yes. >> and that's the problem. they're lying to themselves, because they did take a government vehicle they should know after 46 years of experience, that the reason they're doing it on taxpayer dollars is that they're to respond at a moment's notice. we never know when something is going to happen. this is the senior most -- the senior most people in charge of protecting the white house. they are always supposed to be ready to go at a moment's notice. that's why they took government vehicles. they were taking advantage of the situation and making taxpayers pay for their little rides to the bar. that bar is so low -- the only thing raising on the bar is the bar tab, and it has to change.

i appreciate the good work in ferreting this out. how long is homeland security and secret service had your report? when did they get your first draft? >> they received my first draft -- this draft -- may 6th . we supplied the underlying materials either in the middle of late last week. >> yet there's been no consequence yet. we get reports that maybe one person is going to retire and who knows when that will be. what direction does secretary clancy have in revoking their security clearance? >> i don't have that information. >> but he could revoke their security clearance immediately. correct? >> i'm not sure what the process is for revocation of security clearances. i know there is a process that is involved but i don't know what it is. >> it could be put on nonpaid leave. correct? >> that's my understanding. >> do you think this is an aggravated situation?

>> my understanding is that nonpaid leave -- unfortunately congressman you getting into areas of employment law that are simply beyond my competence. i apologize. >> i think that's a fair situation. but as mr. russell just aptly pointed out even if they weren't drunk and they interrupted a potential bomb scene, that's totally unacceptable. if they lied to somebody who also works for the secret service, that is unacceptable behavior. and if you look at what happened in the e-mail chain trying to protect themselves and making sure that the word didn't get -- there is plenty of evidence, this is a pivotal moment for the secret service. this is the time when we find out what director clancy and secretary john son -- if they have the gulls to do what needs to be done, because in my opinion, these people should be fired, today. they should lose and have their security clearances revoked. that should have happened a long time ago. and those that didn't report this i've got a list here of people who at some degree or

another, have at least according to your report, violated policy that could lead to their potential removal. mark connally, george ogilvie kevin simpson alfonso dyson and perhaps michael braun. at the very least those people need to be taken to the woodshed and should lose their security clearances and lose their job and if i was the president of the united states, i'd never want to see them again. i don't want to see them there. we got thousands of people like the gentleman who is recognized for his valor that should be protecting the president of the united states. but if you're going to go consume alcohol and then show up at the white house disturb a crime scene get out of here. go home. go find another job. you know what? you wouldn't be able to work at my mcdonald's. our wont be able to run the french fry machine. you're not going drink and show up to work and you're not going to do that if you work for the secret service.

your report is very conclusive, independent, and it's time for this director and this secretary to take some definitive, conclusive action, and fix the problem and send a message to the rest of the work force we are not going to put up with anybody who is showing up at work drunk lying trying to cover up, not reporting. how many things went wrong here today? but that's my opinion. yield to the ranking member. >> i want to thank you. for anybody who just tune in, din't want them to think he was talking to you. raftlift. [laughter] >> you heave dub a great job and we do appreciate your staff and i know you had to pull together a lot of people in a little bit of time but we appreciate it. i agree with the chairman. somebody asked are we going to straighten this out? i said we'll have to keep the pressure up but we cannot keep the pressure up without the kind of information you al have provided us. and i'm sure that -- i am

hopeful that when mr. clancy comes before us he'll have a report letting us know what disciplinary action he has taken. we appreciate everything you have done. also appreciate you working with us. from the very beginning you have just been great and your staff. so, thank you. >> totally concur. my frustration is not with you mr. roth or the inspector general's office. without that information we could still be left in the dark, and what you a and your staff he done we're appreciative on both sides of the aisle and pre appreciate it. it's now our responsibility to hold the administration accountable and make sure they fix the problem so we can stop having hearings like these. we do wish you god speed. thank you for this work, and look forward to the other reports you're still working on. this committee stands adjourned.

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lawmakers go on a week-long memorial holiday break. they're facing deadline's then highway trust fund and government surveillance provisions in the patriot act and this week both the house and senate are planning on taking up and passing a bill to fund the federal him and transit program for two months to give them time to work on a longer term highway funding bill. the house and senate returning today at 2:00 eastern for legislative work. the senate working on trade promotion authority with votes on two amendments scheduled at 5:30. you can watch live coverage of the senate here on c-span2 and the house over on c-span. west virginia senator joe man shun takes part in a discussion about ways to make government better. that's live at 2:00 eastern on c-span3, and c-span's live today in iowa for remark biz democratic candidate hillary clinton in mason city, talking about jobs, the economy and initiatives to help small businesses. it's her second visit to iowa

since announceing her candidacy. attorney general loretta lynch and education second arne duncan were two of several speakers at the fourth national submit of preventing youth violence. the center brought together officials from around the united states and federal agencies, including the departments of justice, education, health and human services, housing and urban development labor and the office on national drug control policy. they shared information and discussed efforts and strategies to reduce and prevent youth violence. >> as we know, when this was started in 2010, the first assignment was the big reveal of the six city plans and we like to continue that tradition. so in 2014, we welcomed five new cities to the network. the cities of baltimore my home

town -- woo-hoo. [applause] >> yes i was born and raised in baltimore city. cleveland, long beach -- [applause] -- we have long beach added to the network. [applause] >> louisville. [applause] >> and seattle. [applause] >> so, continuing the tradition of the forum we are welcoming each city the opportunity share with us their plans to develop a comprehensive strategy to work on and combat and as we like to say eliminate youth violence. so first we have the city of baltimore. representing the city of baltimore we have dr. leann the health commissioner for the city. then the city of long beach.

>> good morning everyone. >> good morning. >> wow it's still an enthusiastic crowd. despite the break that just happened. i'm -- lina wen the baltimore city health commissioners on behalf hoff the mayor i'd like to thank the national forum for hosting this important event and the many individuals who have gotten to us where we are today including our other city partners from the mayor's office health department, mayor's office of criminal justice, city schools, rec and parks, city attorney's office, police department, and so many others who are joining us today. and we're also very grateful to the prevention institute and the department of justice for all your hard, who and bringing together this really inspiring

group of individuals here today. our baltimore team prepares an entire presentation to talk about our blueprint for youth violence prevention. i will get to that but it wouldn't be right to talk about anything in baltimore without addressing the big elephant in the room of what happened two weeks ago. as you know, 25-year-old named freddie gray died while in police custody. peaceful protestness our city turned into riots riots and into violence. and have brought the problems in our city and indeed the many other urban cities, into the national news. the deep differences inequalities are evident own next slide are composite risk map, if somebody can bring up the map on the power point please. you'll see that on every metrics

of poor outcomes of truancy teen pregnancy lack of employment that there are big differences. the word are small but you see the color code between the red and the white on the screen, that there are ten-fold differences between neighborhoods often just a block apart. not surprisingly, you'll see that there's also -- these areas of red also correspond to the highest rates of youth shootings youth violence in our city. i won to show you this map which is of when chester the community that freddie gray came from. the statistics here are also sobering. half of all people, adult and youth, are not employed. one out of every three buildings is vacant. the dark green areas are areas areas of high incarceration rate. it's high in this commune and our city.

now, mean people mentioned that -- the mayor talked about how permanent of an issue is, and i want to share a story with you. i'm an emergency physician and i want to toll you about the patient, sean. he was 17 years old when he came to me in the e.r. and he had been shot five times. he was shot three times in the chest, and twice in the abdomen. now, i knew sean because he was there just two weeks ago. he been assaulted and stabbed. a month ago he had a broken hand from punching someone. a month before that the was there for depression, suicidal ideations and maybe other times before that for alcohol heroin and cocaine intoxication. there were many notes about him. the chart about him could fill many books about his growing up in various foster families, about his lead exposure as a

child, being abused, in and out of our online justice system mitchell job in the er was to saves his life but i couldn't help wondering at what other point in his life could we have saved him? violence we know cannot just be seen as a criminal justice issue. we know all of this. i've heard this resonated in so much of what everybody says, at itsroots violence is a matter of life and death and it's a public health issue. like other public health issues -- we think empty measles or flu or ebola. violence is something that is contagious. it causes fear. it wreaks havoc. but just like other public health issues we can prevent it. we can treat it. we can identify protective factors ration sillans factors and do something about it. last fall, we received the news that baltimore had been selected as forum city. we had a tight timeline but we

were committed to meeting the forum to develop a plan in 90 days. so with the help of the prevention institute under the leadership of the mayor we convened a broad group of public and private stakeholders. had four planning meetings, six youth focus groups and intervieweds with our key informants. one theme that is resonated strongly with all of white house participate, one theme that regular nateed immediately is that our goal needs to be first and foremost to prevent our youth from entering the criminal justice system. we have to focus on stopping that cycle of violence because it is our youth who are stuck in the cycle and we have to stop it from every possible point, and before our youth do enter the criminal justice system, people mention substance abuse and we have to have plan to help our

juggle also their families to get back on track. want to share our vision statement which it that all young people in baltimore city are valued and protected and thriving communities and a safe city where there is an abundance of opportunities for young people to dream and to realize their dreams. we identified several core principles. the first and many people mentioned this earlier and secretary duncan said this morning it's our youth who will have the answer, so young people and their families must drive our priorities. the second that we have to ensure cradle to career education opportunities job opportunities, all that has to be part of the plan as well. the third is we have to acknowledge the role of trauma, know that trauma breeds violence and violence breeds trauma. when our youth are afraid to go out and play on the streets that when families are suffering

from violence and trauma every day so much so that we feel like we're living in a war zone, that is something that we really have to change. we have to focus on collaboration every city, every oral suffers from silos and we heard the mayor talk about the importance of really conveniencing around one central goal aligning the work that is being done in the city around the central goal. and finally the principle that reminds me of the african proverb i am because we are. we're all responsible for the safety health, and will being of baltimore's youth. now, our five cradle to career goals that we identified, early childhood, if they've been nurturing, that families supported, connected and empowered. all young people are connected to a trust evidence adult. a neighborhood engages young

people in positive opportunities. and finally that people in neighborhoods have economic opportunities as well. now, not going to read the indicators we have here, except to mention that we have nine indicators and five measures under each of the indicators, and that these are things that will continue to refine what over time. i do want to say a word about structure. we know that preventing youth violence requires a combination of approaches. we have the leadership in our city with the mayor to show moral commitment and to see that we have an overarching vision to catalyze change. second is we have and we will continue to pursue community engagement, for communities to define our priorities and our youth to play an integral part. and third that we must have strong collaboration because it as a true interdisciplinary

coalition effort. we have our work cut out for us but we're proud of the work that we've done. in 90 days we have developed a blueprint for being -- to god our work -- to guide our work. we received important feedback from the department of justice and we plan on moving the blueprint into a living and breathing strategic plan that will have metrics and timelines. now, i also want to emphasize they last thing we want the last thing that any of us need is another report that we're just going to file and put on a shelf somewhere. there are plenty of those out there. what we want is to make sure that we have actionable recommendations, and also that we have clear governance and accountability in implementation so that we can really move this critical issue forward again in collaboration with everyone in our city and making sure that our youth have a part to play in this process. now, no doubt the events of the

last few weeks and the lives of freddie gray and mannose our city will also shape or thinking and well guide our work. the world may have seen our burning buildings and destroyed cars. what we see is our residents will have their destinies determined by their zip codes. our youth are crying out to be heard and the children dying on our streets. what we see is the need for concerted action from a public policy and coordinated approach, starting the blood blueprint. on behalf of the bat nor city parter citizen mayor i commit to a continued and dedicated focus to eliminate disparatesy fight for equity. i commit to strive for future where all young people in baltimore city are valued and protected, in thriving communities and a safe city, where our young people can dream

and realize their dreams. thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> my name is doug hall bert. i have the privilege of serving as the long beach city prosecutor and it's my pleasure to speak to you on behalf of our mayor, robert garcia, who was notable to by here him and we will describe the violence prevention plan the city of long beach has adopted in greater detail. a few years ago long beach

woodrow wilson high school held its homecoming football game, and the game had ended and the students and the spectators were filing oust the stadium. the standing on the sidewalk. a young man of 16-year-old man who was gang involved and had dropped out of school by that point, just 16 years of age came across two gang rivals. words were exchanged words that amounted to a threat, and the young man tom vincent pulled out a gun and fired at least three shots. we know he fired at least three shots because he hit each one of the two gang rivals that he intended to hit and the third bullet missed them entirely, sailed into the audience of people who just left the game, into the body of a young woman named melody roth, also 16, ending her life. melody ross was not gang involved in any way shape or

form. she was an honor student at wilson high school, member of the track team. her family left the killing fields of cambodia to move to southern california, and to start a new life. it was the first football game her parents allowed her attend because it was homecoming. it was the night before halloween, with students dressed up. melly ross wore a super girl costume. after an event like that, it's easy to point fingers. there's plenty of blame to go around and there was blame to the city, blame was pointed at the police department, at the school district, at probation at the courts, all the signs were there. but we all know a finger by itself can do little more than just try to deflect blame and point in another direction. we also know that fingers together can do so much more. they can lift large weight, 100

times stronger than any one finger by itself. long beach rededicated itself in the last few years to a sustainable and vigorous violence prevention plan for a number of reasons most importantly because it was critical to the future of our city. i'm proud to represent long beach today but i'm not alone and i want to mention some of our team members who are here today. we did not just bring a representative of the police department but we have with us the chief of police, robert luna. [applause] >> we don't just have a representative of the school district. we have the superintendent of long beach unified the third largest school district in california. [applause] >> the director of development services amy bodec is here who oversees the violence prevention plan,. [applause] >> we have the director of our own health department here,

kelly kolopy. the city managers of is represented by diane tang and we have two youth representatives. raise your hand there you are. [applause] >> this is a team effort, and a very proud of this team. i have a lot offed a admiration for the team that's been put together and now to share the details i invite tracy heads up our neighborhood -- long beach violence prevention plan. [applause] >> thank you and good morning andes yes i want to thank our long beach team and also want to thank some special people in the room who journeyed with us. the godfather of violence prevention, jack calhoun. [applause] >> mario who flew down from san jose to provide help.

georgiaine ya who work for salinas so thank you. georgeine ya ander necessary city stow from the california cities violence prevention network. they all supported us in our work. [applause] >> during our planning process one of the first things that we did was map over 52js maps of the issue of violence in our cities and poverty code violation, code enforce. and other other risk factors. i'm only going to share a few maps to paint a picture of what is happening in parts of long beach. as you can see in this heat map you can see our most violent employs bleats and we went back four years and tracked these police beats as violence moves from police beat to me police beat but historically stays in a central area of our city, as well as north long beach that borders compton.

we looked at rates of poverty and direct you seek the same locations have the highest amounts of poverty as well as youth and adults prone base, and ab109 defendants. we are able to look at these zip codes and see we have a very high concentration of youth and adults on prohibition. last but not least and dear to my heart is looking at the rate's child abuse domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse. here we can see in the same zip code wes have high culture domestic violence and high substantiated cases of child abuse, and we all know the correlation between those who witness violence or affected by violence or are abused as children, how that cycle of violence then goes on to carry out later in life. so we as a city have looked at these demographics. we have surveyed over 2,200 community residents through community bilingual surveys

multi lingual community forums and focus groups to hear from our residents what is working well and what can we do collectively better to prevent violence in our city. from those meetings, we developed a high level policy plan and so you'll see on our web site, which we'll share at the en, about a 25-page document -- i brought 50 copies and will put them in the back of the room -- a high level policy document and attached to that is a coordination plan. that tell us each year for the next five years how we're going to implement our violence prevention plan. i'm so proud of our city. we're looking at violence across the life span, looking at violence prevention in the home, in those early years on and around or our school campuses and in the community we know violence is fluid. it flows from out of the home, an to the campus, into the community, and back and fort worth rhyme or reason. so we as a city believe if we're really going to battle violence we have to look at all these in

tandem and how we begin to push those things back. our vision for the city that long beach results live in safe families and communes, attend safe schools and are contributing citizen connected 0 -- to their community. we have bold goals. by 2020 and we're track these indicators each year. decrease domestic violence, decreasing those who are abused and neglected, and of course, decreasing the number of incars arrested youth aligning with my brother's keeper, decrease truancy and unemployment rate, increasing high school graduation rate and also increasing the community perception of resident safety through annual community surveys that are multilingual. i'm also proud our city has looked at the framework of risk and protection factor. we developed our plan knowing we

have to reduce risk factors in a child's life and adult's life, all those negative thing that impact their life course, and increased protective factors in the home, on the school campus, out in our neighbors, at the library, the park and out in the community. working together to make sure that we're increasing those protective factors so every child, youth and adult stands a chan -- chance for a positive live outcome. ...

cross-reference addresses and the cps worker may have been there monday, code enforcement there is a end friday night 9-1-1 came for service feared this government entities are not communicating with each other. we enter the same address for different factors interrelated here part of the work of the group is developing a multidisciplinary team will relate down silos and begin to talk about specific addresses of families and children who attend schools and make sure we have a comprehensive approach in terms of helping families rehabilitate the break the cycle of violence. our next section is the safe schools goals. increasing high school graduation rate.

those incarcerated read at a third grade reading level or less. her graders in long beach are dedicated to making sure they continue to read at grade level all the way through high school. we look at increasing performance in english language arts and math come increasing school attendance parents and caregiver participation and last but not least increasing safety in and around schools. this is probably one of the workgroups near and dear to my heart. this is where we work with residents and help them get outside of the four walls of their home or apartment and take ownership of their community. when we survey residence time and time again they say are wanted on the police officers who work in the beef where i live here and i need to know my neighbors better. they told us they want to get to know each other. we look at increasing engagement in high crime neighborhoods, activating or reactivating

neighborhood associations layson for many years accessing our cbg programs. free cleanup assistance, tree planting and beautification for $5000 grants. what i found in my presentation in this neighborhood if they don't even know these programs exist. our job is to go door-to-door and activate residents to come to the association meeting and to begin to reform their neighborhoods from the inside out. we all know unemployment is an issue as well. we overlaid unemployment rates. those track high poverty, high levels of unemployment. how do we develop a strategy that we go door-to-door ensure they have access to local area that you can neighborhoods have met us to summer jobs and increasing the activation for adult knowing about the program but also the business community to provide internships and jobs

for community residents. last but not least, collaborating with law enforcement. we work with them as they do enforcement and hold accountable adults committing acts of violence against other human beings holding them accountable for actions in this particular neighborhood and mature in the 99% of the people in the neighborhood who are committing acts of violence or safe where they live. sorry about that. at this point i'd like to turn it over to death harbor who will give the presentation. thank you. [applause] >> as you can see, long beach has an ambitious plan, a plan that can only be accomplished with an unprecedented level of cooperation from multiple participants. the list here at the core members who have worked together to create the plan and implement the plan.

you will notice long beach has a state university. long beach state university as a key component of that. a number of departments are now working together for a common goal. we also have county also have county players also have county players, county probation sheriff's department. we have hospitals, long beach for moral hospital saint mary's hospital two large institutions among many others working together in for the first time in my life working together in the same room for the same goal always in the water bro in the same direction. i didn't mention it earlier but we have another partner at the long beach ministers alliance. we have pastor greg sanders president of the line. thank you for joining us. [applause] very briefly long beach had a lot of act dignity before but it

was in the line together for the common goal of coordinating efforts to prevent violence. as you see in a short period of time, long beach has the latest effort to work in this area. back in may 2014 the city council adopted its violence prevention plan. shortly after the prosecutor's office my office received a significant grant from the department of justice for anti-gang strategy that does not solely rely on suppression that has prosecutors working on intervention and rehabilitation of former gang members. city now lines the grip great to guess to coordinate with violence prevention. both the city of long beach and the school board had accepted the challenge of the my brothers keeper initiative and also consolidated programs that they can work efficiently in one department which is new for the city of long beach.

the sides are working there. i've used the word alignment a few times. i think that is important because we found we had a lot of resources and maybe find the same in your communities. people don't know about resources. the worst silo has been his organization, nonprofits and departments in the city are doing similar things but not in a coordinated effort for a first our first step in nextstep to align services with better interaction among groups. to secure resources to make sure these are sustainable projects to increase capacity to continue to do the things that work right. find out what we have a line together and secure more resources than in his capacity. those are the next steps. finally, contact information is here. i especially want to thank the department of justice for the department of justice or make any opportunity available to all

the cities working together both within the city and sharing information across city lines to do far more than we could buy ourselves. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you to the city of baltimore and the city of long beach for long beach for sharing the work you are doing on the ground. next we will have sadiqa reynolds from the city of louisville. [cheers and applause] >> good morning. i am sadiqa reynolds chief of community building and i'm very excited about this work. i want to let you know that the agency first of all, mayor fischer could not be here today. he had a prior obligation but i

assure you our mayor is very committed to this work very committed to violence prevention mother relates to use adults everyone in our community. the desire is to have a safe and healthy community where all children are really about to thrive. i want to be clear about the mayor's commitment today. it's a pleasure to be here and represent him. in louisville, we focus on suicide overdose on homicide because we believe violence even against one's self is something we need to be thinking about in dealing with emily is the public health lends an attack about violence in our community. if we could just start i would like to use aside little bit. i'll be honest and tell you i've decided to abandon most of the use of my sides but we'll start with it anyways because i think it's important. i want to talk about what happened in louisville at how we

started this work. i assume there's a timekeeper anyway. so in louisville we started first with the trayvon martin george zimmerman. mr. zimmerman had another incident with a citizen so we'll just see how this plays out. this country is some sort of public apology to the martin family. just because we didn't support enough as far as i'm learned. anyway when we were waiting for whether or not there would be an indictment in the march in the zimmerman matter we had some concern in our community that if in fact something were to happen and there were no indictment what would happen in our community. many people said that is in florida has nothing to do with us. we are in louisville, kentucky.

the mayor himself said wait a minute we are connected in this whole matter and people may respond and we had to be sure we establish trust because that's the first thing is make sure there is trust and relationship in the community. the first time you're out front please don't burn my city down, they've got to have a level of trust. we pray together a group of folks the mayor convened and i love the mayor here earlier said we have the power to convene. we can use the bully pulpit to and so we ought to do that. our mayor brought together many leaders, many faith leaders also and we talked about what might happen if there were no indictment. because of that work and because of the conversation, we did not have the outbreak. we did have protested our community, but i'm proud to say

i participated in work for a mayor who understood i also needed to vent. even with everything to lose i felt distress. we have to acknowledge many of us that causes you to feel discomfort when you see injustice. we did that in louisville. i was good because a month later we had a triple homicide were literally we had someone murdered in front of the police, in front of the cameras we were able to quickly convene that same group and none son to talk about the work. and then the mayor asked for a prevention report to be written and we worked very careful about who wrote that. one had to be co-opted by the public health department. but the other's family guy professor from the university of louisville who had been a longtime advocate in the community. we did that because we knew the community would understand he could not be co-opted and we need this to be validated.

just from the onset. one of the recommendations in the report was that we hire someone to work with violence prevention and we did that. anthony smith is our direct or for safe and healthy neighborhoods and he is here today. [applause] standout. he leads the work. barry go. he leads the work in our community. when he started coming to people in the community said del collis java director for violence prevention. we don't want that. so we changed the name. we call him the director for safe and healthy neighborhoods. while we have a public health lines, let me be clear in louisville kentucky come anthony smith is in the mayor's office because he has the power to convene like mayor greg fischer does. when anthony smith calls the director come if he needs data or information or resources they respond because the next call

will be from hopefully the mayor, not for me. the point is this work is important. so we went through that. everybody showing a map and i love them and the reality is here. we know what happens. when you have a poor community, all of the worst things are happening in that community. when rich folks get a cold everybody else get the flu. i changed up a little bit. work with me. so we worked on increasing summer jobs. we had no funding for summer jobs said summer jobs, said the mayor when asked in every time he gave the speech he shamed folks into creating internships creating positions. we raise money for 1500 summer jobs to public private partnerships. thank you. those jobs were targeted in the

area. we want to give folks resources. if you don't to say this is the outcome of this is bad. so we really tried to target a summer job. we have a coordinating council between the school system the mayor's office metro united way. what that means listen to that. the school system, mr. united way and the mayor's office. you know how many schools we find? if we change the requirements of giving the money we can change the work. we can make sure osc providers have trauma informed training. so they understand what is happening when young people comment spam and abuse. what are we dealing with? one in four one and six has been molested. we had to have providers bank at that end can respond to that and

they don't re-traumatizing. we also have coding classes. the president of the united states stopped by louisville last month, messed up all the traffic. but we were thrilled to have him. he came in and said thank you for providing the opportunity. if you learn how to code you'll make more money than the mayor probably. keep it moving. we have the health department fellows program. we actually pay young people to come look at public health issues in the community. come tell us what will work for you. it is very competitive. we have an application process. they all have to be interviewed. they have to commit to 100% attendance. you have to commit to 100% attendance if they do that. so we have another incident in louisville.

we had an incident on the waterfront and so it is one day when you're in a poor community in a protest and tear stuff up. it's another thing when you go downtown and we've got folks coming in. people all of a sudden pay attention. now it matters. so to capitalize on that and i hope in baltimore, ferguson and they are doing this. when people are scared -- they are already scared. just tell us. you don't get to do nothing. we need money. the language, the dialogue conversation is good. but we got of course was increase in police because they always get that. i love chief conrad because he said we need money for prevention and intervention also. we get the police are just a band-aid. for us we increase the hours of our community centers. we extended the hours. five minutes.

we allow folks to have hot meals. as we understand these kids are not eating. mr. bratt is cinema. we didn't have breakfast because they weren't getting now. we did lunch and hot dinner. what we saw was in the zip code we actually saw a decrease in citations and a decrease in the grass. and it matters about the program. also, our mayor allows two hours a week for every city employee to serve as a mentor. two hours a week on the clock. [applause] we have a right turn grande where we get young people with career counseling and one-to-one mentors. this is something i love. our school system has created

inequities so card to be recognized as proportionality with suspensions. they allowed us to sit in the room as the code of conduct was revised. about three weeks ago we had a celebration for every boy of color with a 3.0 and above in her community. social media, they love it but they need that. when do we get to talk about the dignity data? when do we talk about what is right? [applause] we have got to begin celebrating what is great about the young people that we are trying to engage in our own community. i ask in the mayor's office how many of you all saw thelma. we have all of these negative images about who we are as a people of color. but where is the positive?

they have to go out, see, learn because it matters. it impacts how you interact. i think that is important. we had the same goals generally speaking to create opportunities and improve conditions that hinder education and support economic growth in the community with the challenges enhance quality interventions, promote restorative justice. in the school system and in the community. another thing we are doing. we had a young person who found her mother died so we talked about in a sad when your mother is murdered in the middle of the night the school system is notified. but what are we doing for the kids exposed to violent and don't get to bed until 3:00 in the morning? we pulled some staff person from what her normal job is. she now serves as the liaison

between the school system in the police department. when a child has been exposed to violence we call the school and say anthony smith whatever. sometimes we have chaired on train kids. there is silence in the home, we want a school to know and treat them like they are human. we have phenomenal teachers but the reality is people come to us and we want to respond to that. hopefully we will see a reduction in suspension. here's what we party scene. school system has increased the number of mental health providers. 13, 17, great work. [applause] we have 40 partners in our community working on issues around children exposed to violence. the work is being led by her center for women and families, but as everybody as pointed out here that is important where can we understand that.

we have our u.s. attorney here. could you just stand up? the man is here. [applause] he is with us constantly. he is creating a reentry court. the federal courts as reentry because we understand how important it is. people are coming back into the community and they need to be supported. we have another advisory committee here president of the imc, our faith leader reverend vincent james. if you could stand up please. [applause] it is important to celebrate partners. we the partnerships. if i didn't do one side i have to do this one give money follow instruction. this is not all. this is some of the partners we have in louisville.

we have implemented a thousand books before kindergarten. you name it. but we try to do here is benchmark. this is important. we come to be used to steal. we want to take what you do best and we would like to do it in louisville. we think you are brilliant people and we would like to follow your lead. if you have something to share that you'll take it from us. at the end of the day we want somebody else lives. that is what this is all about. we are working every day, meeting with police chief. adjusting planning checking acting constantly to make sure that the work gets done and it gets done in the right way. i want to tell you one other thing. our advisory committee is made up of not only u.s. attorney, but we've got some unlikely suspects. the ceos of saints.

initially you might have people go why am i here. but they got it because let me explain. this is what we say clearly. do you think that anybody in ferguson is not a part of that solution? do you know how many conferences got canceled because of what happened because of people's outrage and feelings of hopelessness? what happens when you have a community with abandoned properties and boards on the doors. we have got to do something to help heal what is wrong in america. this is what we do in louisville. i hope you can take something home with you in a thank you offer the time. [applause] >> thank you sadiqa and the team of louisville. we hope that you all steel,

cher, network and take on the strategies and ideas from each other. that is why we are here. next we will have hyeok kim deputy mayor from seattle followed by michael walker and toinette parrilla from cleveland. [applause] >> good morning. this is a good-looking crowd. my name is hyeok kim, deputy mayor for the city of seattle. i am honored to be here on behalf of mayor ed murray. i wanted to share as hers that seattle is taking under mayor murray's leadership both in building off of the strong foundation of work that our city has been doing since 2009 on the

issue of youth violence prevention but also taking advantage of some unique opportunities that are mayor was presented with when he came into office last january. before i go into my site presentation, i thought it might be helpful to set a little context for west seattle is looking like today. by that i mean when mayor murray took office last january seattle received a distinction in 2013 being the fastest growing large city in the united states. it was also the city that has seen the steepest increase in rent among large metropolitan cities that same year. our city is a city that has a

rich diversity that goes beyond black and white. our city population roughly about 15% of our city population consists of asian-american pacific islanders roughly historically a percent to 9% african-americans. latino population smaller at 5% of native americans historically have been the urban indian population has been about 2%. that diversity belies a lot of attention that our city is experiencing like so many others across the nation as we deal with development and growth. we have parts of our city that are incredibly diverse. a few years ago after the 2010 census one of our zip codes 98118 was declared as the most diverse zip code in the country. other zip codes have since fought for that distinction. he has seattle is also known as

the city because roughly 70% of the city is white is also very segregated and how our city lives. when mayor murray took office last year, there was a lot that was very wonderful about the opportunities present in our city but also significant challenges. one of those challenges that the mayor identified very early on was the issue of income inequality. when you break down income inequality, down to its foundation, he really is about what we as a city are doing to address the issue of institutional racism in city government and in our civic life. for the mayor, he identified the opportunities that we as a city

were creating for young people as a focal point for how he wanted to address income inequality. not just for today, but future generations. so our vision statement as part of the effort is simply that all seattle youth are achieving their full potential with the support of family and a united violence free community. i will just say a little bit about some of the values that drive the vision statement. since 2001, the city of seattle has instituted what was then an innovative race and social justice initiative that has now been modeled by a number of other cities. basically with all of our programs and services we take a race and social justice lens to ensure that we are paying attention to not just how programs are implemented through

the social justice lens, but to evaluate whether or not we are achieving our in tended outcomes with respect to equitable outcomes. we have a long history as a city of believing in community engagement and shared leadership and under mayor murray's leadership, we have had some very very robust conversation about what does it mean and what does it take to take a multiset or collaboration approach to the way we do business. in his first year in office, and the mayor a rather successful first year. exemplified by the passage of three distinct ballot measures, one of which is identified here

a pilot program of $58 million four-year stars a seed for universal pre-k in the city of seattle focused on high-quality pre-k for three and 4-year-olds. are voters in our city passed a ballot initiative in a year where they also passed a transit levy measure as well as a measure that provided dedicated funding for parks. transmit pre-k and parks. underlying all of those three affairs again mayor murray, the connecting thread that he also emphasized with all three ballot measures was the issue of equity. we have parts of our city where the per capita availability of green or open spaces to resident

is disproportionately less compared to the city in general. with seattle with all of our wonderful diversity, we are still struggling with issues of inequity when they get to issues like parks and open spaces, when we get to issues around transit. and so, the effort, the successful ballot measures last year really are helping in a more holistic way to address a comprehensive needs of the community. the other effort and part of the reason the department of justice indicted seattle to join in this effort is because since 2009 would've also had to seattle youth violence prevention initiative in our city and i will say more about that later. but that effort has given us as the city a strong foundation

from which to continue our work and take it to the next level. a couple of other items that i want to mention is the mayor's youth employment initiatives. i think other cities and other mayors have successfully implemented summer youth employment opportunities. when are mayor took office last summer we had the year before offered 650 summer youth employment opportunities. last year, mayor murray said will take it up to 1000 n. the summer his goal is 2000. like other cities, we have had strong partnership and leadership on the part of our business community stepping up to participate in the effort. finally another aspect, another example of the approach we take in seattle is career bridge, which is an innovative reentry

program operated by our seattle chapter. some of the goals for a violence prevention efforts focus on youth employment community support and coordination of resources. as i mentioned at the beginning these goals are important to understand in the context of the challenges we face as a city especially as they relate to young men of color and young people of color. in seattle among 15 and 16-year-olds, and they represent -- youth of color represents over 50% of 15 and 16-year-olds in our city. i think that is a national demographic trend that is reflected in the fact that 2015

if i am not mistaken is the first year that there will be a minority majority in all public schools in our nation. that is a watershed moment demographically for our country. and seattle is no different in this demographic trends. what is alarming for us and what should be a learning for us is despite the demographic trend layered on top of them are continuing and persistent abrasive disproportionality when we look at education data when we look at crime data when would look at home with this data. these are just a few bullets about the kind of data that underlies our work. unemployment is three times higher for young people in general young people are disproportionately affect did when we come to statistics around violent crime.

again, given the demographic trends i mentioned over 50% of seattle's youth who are 15 and 16 euros or youth of color. that means all of the statistics when we talk about young people, young people of color are disproportionately represented. seattle's rate of youth disconnection is that the national average of 14.7% of african-american youth the disconnection is astonishingly high at more than 27 -- nearly 27%. among the other statistics that is incredibly alarming for a mayor is a sad when we break down the poverty rate in the city of seattle by race are overall population of poverty rate is 13% to 14% which is about the national average. when you break that down, white children in seattle -- about 4% to 5% of white children in

seattle are below the poverty rate. when we look at african-american children the poverty rate goes up to 47%. that is a stark contrast and one that is not sustainable if we are to live up to our city's ideals of inclusion in equity. so what does that mean for us as we entered this partnership, this national forum of work. it is a lot of work ahead of us. it will take a lot of resources as other speakers before me have identified. but there are also opportunities. some of those opportunities are national in scope in addition to the national flora. the city of seattle has pledged to my brother's keeper president obama my brother's keeper initiative as well as to the city united initiative.

with respect to our seattle youth violence prevention program, one of the things we are conduct right now as we speak is a comprehensive community assessment of that program as well as other programs related to this issue. our seattle youth violence prevention program is funded at about i am going to skip around some slides here about $5 million a year. and we have benefited from some important outcomes, positive outcomes from that initiative including the fact since the baseline year of 2008 juvenile court referrals for violent crimes in the neighborhoods served has gone down by 49%. and yet the work remains to continue to build on the strong

foundation. so what are we doing moving forward? the comprehensive assessment that i mention will inventory our current city investments including taking stock of what we have strongly built up with our seattle youth violence prevention initiative. it will also more importantly identify the gaps in services and systems. i feel like a little bit of a problem child because unlike the other good students, the other cities represented that did their present tatian we have in the city of seattle purposely taken a bit of a pause before we actually develop our plan in order for this comprehensive assessment to be completed. we will get the results and recommendations this july. that will then inform our

strategic comprehensive efforts moving forward. part of that assessment will be very frank and candid reassessment of what outcomes we are using as well as the government model to achieve accountability. what we have is the city invested, as we have through a generous levy that supports educational outcome our seattle family and education levey has invested $253 million to supplement the work of our seattle public schools over the last seven years for instance, when we as a city has invested $5 million per year into these violence prevention works and we are still seeing the persistence of the disproportional -- disproportionality data that i just mentioned.

we as a city and are mayor is committed to taking new steps. not just outside the box but a very candid to say how could we do better and extra early to say whether the partnerships we need to string and in order to get to the unified outcomes we all need to start not just whittling away at the disproportionality data those inequities then making ambitious strides to make sure we are eliminating those inequities. and so, part of the launch of the effort was a mayor's youth opportunity summit that mayor murray convened earlier this spring, really led in large part an organized by marie lockhart

with the youth prevention initiative. we have one of the most wonderful turnout of young people. we had over 400 people show up for this opportunity summit at rainer beachhigh school, at historically low income neighborhood in seattle. i would say more than two thirds of the attendees were young people and specifically young people of color. we have ongoing city's commitment to our race and social justice initiative that will help inform the outcomes than a methodology that we use in shaping our plan and we are also, as i mentioned before taking policy proactive policy affairs. recently seattle a couple of years ago was one of the first cities to ban the box to make

sure we as a city are leading by example to remove. her stew reentry literally our employment forms that force applicants to record or identify whether or not they have been conveyed to do they sell in. in addition to the three ballot measures i mentioned last year are mayor led the effort to pass but was then the first in the nation has toric increase in our city minimum wage to $15. so sorted in conclusion i wanted to just leave you with a couple of thoughts and then a quote. the couple of thoughts are this. for each of the cities that are represented, we in the city of seattle are incredibly excited to learn from me after the

outcomes but also the mistake that other cities have and will go through. i think that is part of the excitement being part of a national cohort, a national community because no one has got the answer right. some of the nuggets that i will be taking on and i don't know but dignity data. love that phrase some of the concept that phrase is motivated by her. one of the hopefully value added or added things that the city of seattle will contribute to the effort nationally is also the benefit of having a bloomberg innovation team. last year, the city of seattle was one of a handful of cities that was awarded a bloomberg innovation grant, where we will literally have a team that will work as they can hold 10 on this

effort on the issue of violent prevention for young people in our city and carlos gerona is back there is the director of the itu. they will work with several departments on the mayor's office for six to nine on to help us deliver on the promise and refine methodology for how we as a city can do better to address youth violence. i will then leave you with a quote that are mayor shared at his state of the city address which is an excerpt from a poem by mike angelo. history despite its wrenching pain cannot be on lance and it stays with courage we not be left again they lift up your eyes on the day breaking for you. give birth again to the dream.

thank you. [applause] >> good morning. my grandmother said please follow the three b's. be brief, be bright, be gone. that is difficult for me. thank you for having us. after four years of fighting to become a part of the flora, we have finally arrived cleveland. [applause] we will go to the slides. they come from a beautiful city, which many of you know has returned.

plays a little basketball. he's come home. like it when you say to all of you, it's a great name. come home again. if you get a chance visit cleveland. we want to be the safest city in america do we want to join you. all of our efforts together will make a difference for our community and that is why we are so proud. cleveland is trying to come i say this, goes back to the original kong that await him be. you'll see all about that in a few moments. but we are trying to do is take so many singularly great programs and put them together. we are very fortunate, very lucky that many of the federal initiatives that have wonderful programs really have followed

what they have been designed into their silos. this gives you the greatest opportunity to link and integrate those. for a population of young people into contact because of so many systems. 15 to 25-year-olds in every city here are suffering from system failures. mental health education, public housing parenting and racism and poverty and officers feeling the same thing. i will not give you a lot of data. to make sure we have a singular structure that is multidimensional, covers all the discipline and cause all levels. that includes from birth to

college or location, but to employment. it covers a responsibility when we look at our city we have evidence-based command data driven programs that were and those that don't, let's change them and get rid of them. the third is we cannot do this without the community. we cannot go when you make it better for someone else. we have to make it better for all of us together in the centerpieces of making decisions in our city. our project is very simple, to look at partnerships look at training, empowerment of the community and evaluating that. we have a wonderful team. they don't want to be announced. the cleveland table, stand up. it represents the u.s. attorneys universities our districts, counties and

leadership. they are all wonderful people and you get to meet them hopefully. our goals are simple. we have two wonderful initiatives. many of you no one. we would like to combine that structure with many of you who may have heard years ago called kg which is a comprehensive gang initiative in 2006. the community preferred a different name. i heard a lot of the talk about that. please listen to your community when they want you to read reposition. it matters. so significantly important. as we talk about this, and this is something that cannot be done. we truly need to look at all the various components of our community to make a difference. and our plan we are going back to each of the workshops scheduled today. everyone of them has a component in everyone's plan at various

levels. we have recognized silence of this is like 360 for me. i will honor someone that is a family member today. i have a cousin who talked to me about 10 years ago about youth violence. did the first report on violence. dr. david thatcher. that is my cousin. and what he said about that was the public health issue than as a public issue now and finally we all see the light. our goal is to talk about the current issue today for some reason we need to separate law enforcement through community. it is not a separate thing.

policing, juan enforcement are all in one. we have to recapture the trust retool and rescale our offices and engage our community in restoring what should be our relationship on a first name basis. but we try to do is start with something called police assistant referrals. i know staff is here from justice. where public housing and policing. to give you one example how great the program works we have a 50% reduction in weight increased favorability by over 90%. think about changing the needle in that area. that is because the officers are able to refer within a 48 hour window the services people need. we are so proud of that abu will continue continue to expand as well. the fourth goal is to look at 15

to 24-year-olds, which is a gap in bringing all those together. a number of steps to do. because i recognize we've been to all the other cities, we will go through an in it with his and i will introduce tony. [applause] >> i think it is still morning. so good morning. my name is toinette parrilla, director of health. i would like to recognize our honorable mayor frank jackson who unfortunately cannot be here today because as many of you are aware he is working through our doj report as well as barbara relocates waiting for the verdict. our community is right now preparing for the verdict and

really concerned about how the community is going to respond. it really brings me to the focus which begins with travis and knowing your community. as michael stated we cannot very similar masks as many others have prepared and presented today. i would only need to show one map. one map that was actually designed in 1940 when the redlining and racism and segregation and discrimination was deep-rooted in our city which means certain areas were designed to fail designed to fail. so when we speak of place matters by your zip code, it is true. which means the population, the targeted population in which michael identified the ages of 15 to 25 are representing many

cities. when they are supposed to start their life, and they have sense of envy. they don't have true hope. they don't know where to begin. the resources and support services relationship between law enforcement and the government isn't fair. where do they begin? we talk about youth violence. we have to talk about community perception our moral character. what are we building within the families fabric of what we are supposed to promote. i think those are some of the questions we need to leave here today. not only evidence-based practices. it can be as simple as having an evaluation metric. simple as a tracking mechanism. doesn't need to be something in depth and complicated and we can make things too complicated. if we take the time to develop a

besides before we start running we can have true sustainability and change because what we need is a systems change. he started off and we need to make sure we track what we are harvesting with that feed. the time is now. but time is now and we are all here for a purpose, not to take and take the information in order information, which we talk about silos and hoarding of information. you know i think it's a matter of sharing information. how can we improve our information and have impact which brings me to this. it is imperative as we create these alliances that we create task force is capable of

mobilizing to the hotspots that we need to intervene for a true response. we talk about our policeman who are responsible for enforcement and responding in our first social responders if you will see some of the public health recommend nations that i think sharing with michael in our cleveland team if you have is there has to be equal accountability that is balanced. what does that look like when we talk about that? we know that our police forces responsible for being the first responders in many cases in which should have a requirement as part of the process annual evaluation. we should have emotional intelligence to assess and honor police responders. do they have the skills that to manage what they are responsible

to manage or are they going to jump on the roof of a car unload their gun, reload and unload again. do they have the skills that they need for the community they are responsible for protecting and surveying. those are the real indicators that need to be monitored and evaluated and upon evaluation you should have a professional development plan. in addition, a public health recommendation includes that our law enforcement providers they are providers and public servant should be required to provide community services in which the communities they serve within. they need to work in our school system. they need to be part of the health curriculum so they get to know my son and your daughter by the time cheney and johnny and susie and sally are in their

teenage years off in abc will know that sally who he helped grow. before he decides to shoot sally or johnny, he is going to know that individual is part of the growth process. there is an equal investment in the people that were here to serve and protect. that is another recommendation. we have criteria for students in third grade fifth grade in ninth grade where they have to provide. we have to assess their body mass index. we also should have some of these assess and to identify the trauma of our students that we are trying to educate. a requirement request or part of the enrollment process for principles for those responsible for serving those students we have to see their mental health status. we talk about mental health or

fighters. where do you begin? >> we will be the last couple of minutes to take you live to the center where members will begin their week working on trade promotion authority legislation. they will take a couple of amend both on the bill at 5:30 eastern this afternoon. senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god thank you for your steadfast love and unchanging mercy for we are sustained by your tender compassion. give our lawmakers the wisdom to follow your example of self-sacrifice and keep them